This book is incredibly helpful | Photoshop Restoration and Retouching (Macintosh Library)

Epiphany! | Photoshop Restoration and Retouching (Macintosh Library) | Katrin Eismann

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	• Photoshop Restoration and Retouching (Macintosh Library) Katrin Eismann New Riders Press, 2001 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 62 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Just What I Wanted

While some areas are over my head it has showed me areas that I need to learn.I have only had it a few days and am so happy with it.A must have book. Charlotte

This book is incredibly helpful

For photo retouching -- this book has lots of examples, clear instructions, helpful color photos documenting each procedure and effect, and a very engaging writing style. Other books focus on what the various tools do and leave it to you to figure out when to use them. This book is structured around the situations you confront in working with a photograph (color, lighting, skin tone, etc.) and provides a variety of options for making corrections. I really learned alot very quickly.

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Epiphany!

Well, I admit it. I'm reaching beyond my capabilities each time I open Photoshop 6.

I have been taking digital photos with a CP950, now 995, for about two years and have ongoing need to adjust images for optium results with my HP Photosmart printer. I also have a slew of photos in the closet that I'm scanning so I can preserve and/or reprint "heirlooms".

Katrin Eismann & Steve Simmons have given me one of the greatest gifts ever in my search for good Photoshop instruction. Their book on retouching and restoring images is amazing. It provides wonderfully clear real-life examples of problems I face daily with images I capture and/or scan. They make Photoshop make sense to me. Understanding layers has been a real challenge and stepping though their editing processes with them by using the images from the book's companion web site ampliphies the sensability of Photoshop's protocols and how it all works.

I should say something about their writing; it's clear, simple, direct, entertaining, playful and completely accessible. This "newbie" needs patient, step by step instruction, which they provide so well.

My heartfelt thanks to these folks for their thoughtful efforts to share their knowledge and bring Photoshop to a wider audience of users who want to preserve memories and find new ways of creative expression. YEA!

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Older Photoshop Versions and The Book

Before I bought this book, I was reluctant to buy because I am running Photoshop 5.0.2, and I was questioning whether my skill level was high enough to benefit from the book. I found that almost everything in the book could be done with v.5.0. I considered myself to be somewhere between beginner and intermediate in skill levels. This book is written in a language that is easy to understand. It is absolutely loaded with information, and by the time I read up to chapter 3, I had my money's worth. Previously, I spent hours upon hours working on old family photos, with mixed success. After a short while studying the book, I was able to quickly improve the problem areas. The only possible drawback is that if you want to follow along with the tutorials, you need to download images from the author's website (which I recommend). But when you consider what this book has to offer, this is a minor inconvenience. I took the time to download all images, and save them to a CD. I've had this book for about 3 weeks, and I simply can't say enough about it!

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